Sadly, he is suffering from Parkinsons, which seems to have made his speech a bit more slurred than normal. Great broadcaster and a huge character in his field.
The only thing that would make it better would be a full on 'Hitchcock zoom' or 'Dolly Zoom' on Tom's face (like the Jaws or Vertigo zooms in with the other panellists in the background) but I appreciate this is a highbrow show 😂
@@myspinalchord1871 Well yeah, but I've watched numerous episodes of this show now, and I haven't seen anyone who even somewhat expressed themselves the same way, not even close. To me, he is highly unlikeable.
@@KLienne he's probably never done anything like this before while contestants from the normal seasons have done years of practice. He's also naturally expressive which probably contributes to his success on RUclips. I find it so funny personally
@@myspinalchord1871 I guess we're different. I just can't bare to see him blow out the air contained in his cheeks, as if he just avoided pressing the nuclear launch button by a phone call right on time, but instead he's on a quizz show.
He said in of the citation needed Videos that he hasnt Played Video games since he was a kid so if he was in a playstation household thats understandable
Those opening few seconds truly show how excited Tom is to be there! Looking around at his teammates and buzzing with excitement - I was so shocked but elated to see him appear on University Challenge.
he was on onlyconnect before fame as well. I mean it's totally in character for him to want to be on these kinds of shows but I'm happy he did it recently after all his success as well
Which Californian video game professional of the aforementioned Super Smash Bros. Melee has aliases such as 'The GOAT' and 'Scorpionmaster94' and mains the space animals Falco and Fox?
I got all the geography questions in the writer round about james Joyce purely because I knew where the cities/territories were the fact they discounted Gibraltar did surprise me a bit.
I love how right upon receiving condolences for the loss from Paxman, Tom immediately opts to compliment the Hull team on their well-earned win. Just an incredibly class move and a true show of sportsmanship.
this is one of the only university challenges I've seen where I've been able to answer some of the questions before the question finished (mostly the ones about video games and comics)
Watching the previous video, it seemed that tom and the professor missing now that was in the previous game (Dr. Vanessa Kind) seemed to get a lot of the answers from the last game. I wonder how that affected the score here if she was still there. Great game regardless!
Got that first game cube answer in an instant. Wave racer was my first ever game on my first ever console and ended up turning a passion found on that console it into a short lived profession as a top 20 Fifa player from 2012-14. That question hits hard. Never heard Wave racer referenced anywhere else since. Who would've thought an obscure jetski racing game could evoke so much emotion.
I shed a little tear to hear Paxman picking his way through the pronounciation of those wordy questions. This must have been near the end of his run on University Challenge. He's only 73, but older age can be such a bitch.
I would object to the Pleiades being included in that list of groups of 7. There are, in fact, a large number (a thousand or so?) of stars in the Pleiades. 7 is a traditional number in the West, based on how many people can typically see with the naked eye (and with skies lacking light pollution, of course). However, this can vary between individuals (Galileo apparently could see several dozen!), and there are some places where a different number is used. For example, in Japan, it's 6. You can see this most famously in the logo of car company Subaru (its name being the Japanese name for the Pleiades), which shows 6 stars. Well, if it were said to be a traditional number, I could let it slide, but that wording was notably lacking.
The fact you used the right accents shows that you know that's how it should be pronounced. 'May-lay' as a pronunciation makes absolutely no sense when you spell it out like that. It's like how Pelé (RIP) was pronounced as 'Pay-lay' by USA citizens.
It's not an RP accent or an imitation of French either, you can tell because in French the intonation would rise in the middle, with the é sound being a little bit more elongated. The British pronunciation is a lot flatter.
@@RatzaChewy A lot of US people seem to like to subconsciously virtue-signal about being 'in touch' with Latin American pronunciations. Sometimes it's close to the proper native pronunciation, sometimes not. Hence the jarring insistence on 'Chi-LAY' for that country in common US usage.
Triereste and Gibraltar were easy (if you know what cities are where, trireste is easy because thats the only city in that bit of italy that cuts off slovenia, and since james joyce was irish (and he wrote in english), it'd be more likely that it was a statue in gibraltar than in Cádiz or any other city around there in spain) As for Zürich, I guessed Zürich because i'm pretty sure Bern is further south and east than that in switzerland, although I wasn't 100% sure it was Zürich (I thought it might have been Basel or something, but not Bern)
That presenter is not made for people outside England I guess? Really hard to hear what he says! Or maybe I'm not used to old sleeping men from England.
It's sad to see Jeremy Paxman like this, really. He has hosted the show for almost 3 decades, and has recently stepped down as host of the regular show due to him having Parkinson's. This was a Christmas special featuring past alumni, and likely Paxman's last stint as host
Tom has been cursed to take physical damage every time he gets an answer wrong, and the only way to break it is to win the game before dying.
Hahaha you've captured this so well xD
I love how the presenter exudes such a lack of fucks given energy to all the wrong answers
Jeremy Paxman's attitude is definitely part of why the show is so fun. It's a shame he's retiring
@@daniellowe6116 What's even worse is the replacement their getting
and the right ones as well it seems.
Sadly, he is suffering from Parkinsons, which seems to have made his speech a bit more slurred than normal. Great broadcaster and a huge character in his field.
Such a sleepy host. Merely reading the questions and the answers, a job that can be performed by anyone. A far cry from Victoria Coren.
Anybody else love the cheesy ‘York Scott’ and camera zoom?
YORK SCOTT!
same!
The only thing that would make it better would be a full on 'Hitchcock zoom' or 'Dolly Zoom' on Tom's face (like the Jaws or Vertigo zooms in with the other panellists in the background) but I appreciate this is a highbrow show 😂
@@fubini_yt I love how excited the dude is. That's gonna be stuck in my head
It was funnier in "Imperial school!"
Tom is playing as if someone has the password to his youtube account and will delete all the videos if he doesnt win.
Yea, his facial expressing are absolutely appalling to watch. He acts like he saved his own life when he gets a question right.
@@KLienne shows his passion i guess, wouldnt say 'appaling' tho
@@myspinalchord1871 Well yeah, but I've watched numerous episodes of this show now, and I haven't seen anyone who even somewhat expressed themselves the same way, not even close. To me, he is highly unlikeable.
@@KLienne he's probably never done anything like this before while contestants from the normal seasons have done years of practice. He's also naturally expressive which probably contributes to his success on RUclips. I find it so funny personally
@@myspinalchord1871 I guess we're different. I just can't bare to see him blow out the air contained in his cheeks, as if he just avoided pressing the nuclear launch button by a phone call right on time, but instead he's on a quizz show.
My heart broke when he didn’t get GameCube. All that knowledge and I still know more about weird purple consoles 😂
He said in of the citation needed Videos that he hasnt Played Video games since he was a kid so if he was in a playstation household thats understandable
Tom Scott should be on every game show!
Even better….. a chaser
tom scott does cats does countdown?
Tom scott does mock the... oh wait they canceled that one...
Would I lie to you!
What I'm hearing from this is Tom Scott should be on Taskmaster
Those opening few seconds truly show how excited Tom is to be there! Looking around at his teammates and buzzing with excitement - I was so shocked but elated to see him appear on University Challenge.
he was on onlyconnect before fame as well. I mean it's totally in character for him to want to be on these kinds of shows but I'm happy he did it recently after all his success as well
At this rate, I'm convinced that Tom Scott should be on celebrity jeopardy.
Is there a British jeopardy? Even with all of Tom’s travels, I doubt he’d do well on an American trivia show.
@@stephenbeck7222 There used to be a British version back in the 1980's.
@@stephenbeck7222: Not since 1996 or so. Though I imagine the UK has more quiz shows per capita than the US, just home grown ones.
Always hoped I would never hear the words "Power Puff Girls" uttered by Jeremy Paxman
I love the "York Scott" shout and the camera zoom!
Sounds a lot like "Young Scott" sometimes
I know this is a Tom Scott compilation, but its a shame that Kind wasnt on the team for this round, she was so good against Durham.
also my thoughts, I wonder why she wasn’t on, maybe someone who watched the full episodes could answer
Them being completely lost on the gamecube questions is too on brand lol
I loved the video game questions. Glad Tom got most of them
he was great, but also this is edited to only show his answers :)
@@alice_hml well he is team captain, which means he always answers on behalf of the rest of the team, the exception being the starter questions
@@alice_hml I mean he got most of the video game questions correct. Probably because he's the youngest one there 😅
Which Californian video game professional of the aforementioned Super Smash Bros. Melee has aliases such as 'The GOAT' and 'Scorpionmaster94' and mains the space animals Falco and Fox?
@@irakyl mango mango mango mango
7:26 tom gets a video idea
The fact that there was a video game and comics round here makes extremely happy in a way I can't describe. It's nice when you know all the answers
the video game part is the only part i would nail, especially with all questions being around the game cube
I got all the geography questions in the writer round about james Joyce purely because I knew where the cities/territories were the fact they discounted Gibraltar did surprise me a bit.
I love how right upon receiving condolences for the loss from Paxman, Tom immediately opts to compliment the Hull team on their well-earned win. Just an incredibly class move and a true show of sportsmanship.
I love how when in the video game questions everyone looked at Tom confused. Pretty cool that they had a section for video games/comics
GAMECUBE IT’S THE GAMECUBE GAMECUBE TOM SCOTT THE GAMECUBE
Given how much Tom travels, his sense of geography is atrocious.
he said Andalusia when he was supposed to name a city in Spain lol
@@BlackSpiderPro it's not even a city in spain it's one of englands many territories lmaoooo
@@mercurialinterference6931 Andalusia... in England? Andalusia/Andalucía is a territory (not sure what they call it there) in Spain.
@@stephenoxf He is talking about Gibraltar which is english
@@therandomman1171 but he was replying to a guy who said andalucia, andalucia isn't english. maybe he confused andalucia for gibraltar
I quite enjoy the nodding in admiration for every right answer
this is one of the only university challenges I've seen where I've been able to answer some of the questions before the question finished (mostly the ones about video games and comics)
Watching the previous video, it seemed that tom and the professor missing now that was in the previous game (Dr. Vanessa Kind) seemed to get a lot of the answers from the last game. I wonder how that affected the score here if she was still there. Great game regardless!
Mooney, who replaced her, was their second best player in this after Tom Scott, Sadly the other two didn't contribute much.
Got that first game cube answer in an instant. Wave racer was my first ever game on my first ever console and ended up turning a passion found on that console it into a short lived profession as a top 20 Fifa player from 2012-14. That question hits hard. Never heard Wave racer referenced anywhere else since.
Who would've thought an obscure jetski racing game could evoke so much emotion.
I shed a little tear to hear Paxman picking his way through the pronounciation of those wordy questions. This must have been near the end of his run on University Challenge. He's only 73, but older age can be such a bitch.
The Whole thing can be seen here ruclips.net/video/qVaOkGQudcA/видео.html
They missed Prof. Kind. Way to go eff off to Norway and leave your team hanging.
(/s)
I would object to the Pleiades being included in that list of groups of 7. There are, in fact, a large number (a thousand or so?) of stars in the Pleiades. 7 is a traditional number in the West, based on how many people can typically see with the naked eye (and with skies lacking light pollution, of course). However, this can vary between individuals (Galileo apparently could see several dozen!), and there are some places where a different number is used. For example, in Japan, it's 6. You can see this most famously in the logo of car company Subaru (its name being the Japanese name for the Pleiades), which shows 6 stars. Well, if it were said to be a traditional number, I could let it slide, but that wording was notably lacking.
why was Kind not on this episode? She was great in the other one
Impressive! I got all the cities on the map, and the countries' official names, but wouldn't have fared at all well otherwise
Tom lost ANOTHER semi final. oof.
Why didn’t my boy get GameCube 😭
4:19 that's my city, I've walked past that statue thousands of times, that's so cool!
It's a gorgeous city, I went there in summer as part of an Interrail and stayed there for a night.
I wish those tournaments would be double elimination so Tom could do a loser's run and come back to win the tourney from losers bracket
I love how the tom's not the one in the red t-shirt this time
1:35 They say *"mêlée"* with such an upper-crust pronunciation. I've never heard a real Melee player pronounce it that way.
They pronounced it the right way though
I mean, I’m pretty sure every single person in the UK pronounces it like that… because that’s how the word is pronounced.
The fact you used the right accents shows that you know that's how it should be pronounced. 'May-lay' as a pronunciation makes absolutely no sense when you spell it out like that. It's like how Pelé (RIP) was pronounced as 'Pay-lay' by USA citizens.
It's not an RP accent or an imitation of French either, you can tell because in French the intonation would rise in the middle, with the é sound being a little bit more elongated. The British pronunciation is a lot flatter.
@@RatzaChewy A lot of US people seem to like to subconsciously virtue-signal about being 'in touch' with Latin American pronunciations. Sometimes it's close to the proper native pronunciation, sometimes not. Hence the jarring insistence on 'Chi-LAY' for that country in common US usage.
Get''s questions about PC's and Game's consoles lol.... its a fix!!!!
*me in the USA*
Knew video games, knew "7", also thought "Nigeria" and "Venezuela". Maybe I am not a moron after all
Really needed this update thank you
Triereste and Gibraltar were easy (if you know what cities are where, trireste is easy because thats the only city in that bit of italy that cuts off slovenia, and since james joyce was irish (and he wrote in english), it'd be more likely that it was a statue in gibraltar than in Cádiz or any other city around there in spain)
As for Zürich, I guessed Zürich because i'm pretty sure Bern is further south and east than that in switzerland, although I wasn't 100% sure it was Zürich (I thought it might have been Basel or something, but not Bern)
thanks for making these and thanks for not spoiling it
bUT "a NEuRaL nEtwOrK" is tHrEe wOrDS
WHY DOES TOM SCOTT KNOW POWERPUFF GIRLS LORE
Why not?
I was screaming at my screen for the gaming ones
Hold up. Powderpuff Girls came out in 1998?! I remember that first episode! 😱
Where’s the red t-shirt
I had a GameCube!
I'm incredibly conflicted here because on the one hand I want to support Tom Scott but he's playing against Hull, which is my alma mater.
Watching them fail at geography was painful. I got all of the country-related questions except the Zurich one - I thought it was Basel.
MELEE MENTIONED!!!
Theme music: similar in style to Only Connect, but a lot more convincing as music
my stupid ass is just happy that i nailed the video game questions-
Great job Tom!
i was actually looking forward to this even youtube recommended it to me lol
edit: gg york damn
Toidi na m'i 😢
Super Smash in a UK game show. Ight.
I'm pretty sure this is a quiz show to test every facet of the contestants' knowledge bases, so there should be no categories without a question.
@@stephenoxf This is also the "Alumni special" so the questions are a bit more mainstream than the usual fare.
I think we've found the next presenter
Oh yes, but I sadly doubt as to whether Tom would be interested. I'd start watching again if he was, though!
Thank you, you are an mvp.
Damn they are really bad at geography
University Cakewalk.
I was so proud I got the GameCube one lol
Tom Scott is still the most intelligent RUclipsr on RUclips.
Matt Parker imo
Hell yeah
damn F tom
A host that can't enunciate ...
The host, Jeremy Paxman, has Parkinson's disease and retired a couple of months after this special was broadcast.
@@MandrakeHorse Oh, that explains it. THey speak so increadibly fast that it makes it very hard to catch what's said.
it's so rude how you cut out all of the other introductions
(As an American,) half of the difficulty of these questions is just understanding the presenter's mumbles...
Jeremy Paxman, the presenter, had been recently diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. This special was from his final series before he retired.
That presenter is not made for people outside England I guess? Really hard to hear what he says! Or maybe I'm not used to old sleeping men from England.
It's sad to see Jeremy Paxman like this, really. He has hosted the show for almost 3 decades, and has recently stepped down as host of the regular show due to him having Parkinson's. This was a Christmas special featuring past alumni, and likely Paxman's last stint as host
oof he got the gamecube one wrong